Hi Aleksandra,
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Aleksandra Pawlik
aleksandra.n.paw...@gmail.com wrote:
Exercism.io came up in the discussion about lesson package manager and
solutions to kind of pick'n'mix of training materials. They have a
similar mechanism (I think). It's just a bit buried
It's a function of statistics, assuming each of the lines of code is an
independent distribution that is either correct or wrong.
Given the input assumption (95% of all source code lines are correct as
written the first time), then the code is correct if the individual lines
are all correct,
Hi Aron,
What I mean is where does the assumption of a line of code being 95%
correct come from.
Thank you for helping me think more clearly about the question I wanted to ask.
Best
Shoaib
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Aron Ahmadia a...@ahmadia.net wrote:
It's a function of statistics,
Replying to the entire list this time:
From McConnell's summary in Code Complete 2nd Edition, p. 521
Industry average experience is about 1-25 errors per 1000 lines of code
for delivered software. (cites 6 surveys in the literature from 1981 to
2003)
Of course, that's production code that has
Hi all,
The 95% figure comes out of thin air - if you'd like to adjust it to
99%, and recalculate the overall odds of correctness, that would be
fine. In fact, I believe the original version of the text was something
like:
...if there's a 95% chance of each line being correct, the odds of
Thanks Greg,
The intent and argument is much clearer with the text you refer to.
: )
On 24 Nov 2014 18:47, Greg Wilson gvwil...@software-carpentry.org wrote:
Hi all,
The 95% figure comes out of thin air - if you'd like to adjust it to 99%,
and recalculate the overall odds of correctness,
Thanks - I'll PR.
G
On 2014-11-24 2:56 PM, Shoaib Sufi wrote:
Thanks Greg,
The intent and argument is much clearer with the text you refer to.
: )
On 24 Nov 2014 18:47, Greg Wilson gvwil...@software-carpentry.org
mailto:gvwil...@software-carpentry.org wrote:
Hi all,
The 95%
I didn't assert that it was the point.
Thanks for the reference.
On 24 Nov 2014 17:51, Aron Ahmadia a...@ahmadia.net wrote:
From McConnell's summary in Code Complete:
Industry average experience is about 1-25 errors per 1000 lines of code
for delivered software.
Of course, that's
